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thank you, shimon. stand by. i'm going to toss it back to my colleagues in new york. but you're watching the video being played now, being released by the memphis police department at this point. erin? >> don, you know, it is amazing, as we watch this together, you're in memphis, i'm here, we're watching this and we are still watching. everyone should understand, this is still the actual video released by the city of memphis. so as we're watching here, this isn't a replay. this isn't a let's just show how long it took them. this is still happening. he is still lying there. we underst...

Open to allow the officer free access of baton strikes. nobody teaches that. >> that's just brutality. >> that is just plain and simple -- that is a street fight, an alley beat down. that's all that is. >> juliette kayyem also with me, of course, former homeland security. juliette, there's a point where they're standing around while he's just prone, talking about how this happened. he's swerving, just sort of a casual conversation, as if they're just hanging out at a coffee shop. >> that's exactly right. and there's almost nothing that i think that we can analyze about what the situation is sh...

>> and we cannot forget the hundreds of thousands of workers who won't get paid this week. jon karl, our thanks to you again tonight. we are going to turn now to a dramatic police takedown on a new york city street. witnesses say two men lunged at police officers. those officers then striking the men on that busy corner in broad daylight. the two men fighting back. then undercover officers suddenly appear, and it becomes an all-out brawl. the mayor tonight calling the incident tonight troubling. abc's whit johnson with what set this off. >> back up. let's go! >> reporter: tonight, this viole...